NEWSTRACK: Donald Trump’s Immigration Ban, and BBC’s view on it.

On January 29th, the BBC held a sort of live feed covering Trump’s Executive Order/Immigration Ban. Any article about it featured on the feed had side links to related articles, generally giving more information on who the ban affects and how it would “work”, as well as a live feed of protests against the Executive Order and interviews with immigrants affected by it. (http://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-38790842)

On top of that, the main article on the subject, “White House stands firm over travel ban,” sheds more light on the subject as well as showing reactions from lawyers/law experts and other countries. (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38790629)

Following in line with my previous Newstrack post on the BBC’s coverage of Trump, the BBC’s language on either article is succinct and slightly curt, using short sentences to their fullest to deliver the facts in a direct, no-nonsense manner – yet there is still that slight tinge of irony that seems to be a signature of the BBC’s writing. Why else would they, in the middle of an article on Trump’s reaction to his immigration ban being taken to the Court of Appeals, write that “Also on Wednesday morning, Mr Trump criticised retailer Nordstrom after it decided not to stock the new clothing line of his daughter, Ivanka Trump”?

The articles on the courts’ reactions mentioned above also have two notable supplements: the article on Trump’s own reaction comes with the following graphic ending the article proper, presumably as a reminder for those who may have forgotten about how the American system of Checks and Balances works:

The article on the Court of Appeals’ dissection of and debate over the immigration ban comes with a reminder of just what exactly Trump’s immigration ban entails, as well as some facts pertinent to the overall reaction to it: